Cisco Technology, Inc.

Neil Jarvis

Stewart Frederick Bryant

George Swallow

Daniel C Frost

Graham Haley

In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving a data communications packet comprising one or more labels in a label stack; determining whether a table identifier is present in the label stack. In response to determining that the table identifier is present in the label stack: based, at least in part, on the table identifier, a label table is determined; a next hop for the data communications packet is determined by performing a next-hop lookup in the label table using at least one of the one or more labels; and the data communications packet is forwarded to the next hop. In an embodiment, the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

Universal labels in internetworking

A method and apparatus for automatically assigning a locally administered MAC address to at least one client in a local area network ('LAN') system, and a method and apparatus for detecting duplicate locally administered MAC addresses, where the LAN system comprises at least one client and may comprise at least one server.

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Midlothian, United Kingdom

Neil Jarvis